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TLDR: There was a time where Quora was the 1st and last thing I'd excitedly look at whenever I turned on my computer, but over time it got noisier and junkier, the quality of questions dropped, and I started checking in less and less. These days I drop by maybe a few times a year
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Seems like communities either have to be extremely gated and heavily moderated to keep a good thing going well, or they have to accept that the price of free-for-all entry means an inevitable evaporative-cooling effect (A's attract B's, B's attract C's, C's drive A's away)
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Because most people don't have the stomach for strong moderation (except in specialized contexts, eg /r/askhistorians), every open-ish community has a half-life of sorts. My advice to people seeking good spaces is to find them early, then build personal/private 1-1 relationships
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hehe, sync-ing similar thoughts with venkat across the globe in real time
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1st Law of Communities (Gatekeeping strictness)+(Behavior policing strictness) > C/((Compassion level)*(Knowledge level)) 🤔 This inequality proves that an engineering education is indistinguishable from irreversible brain damage
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